Literature News Roundup: Winners Have Been Chosen to Die in Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire — culturefly.co.uk

Remember how George R R Martin was offering readers the chance to feature, and die in, the next books of the author’s Song of Ice and Fire series? Two lucky (and rich) people have now been selected for the charity auction’s prize after paying $20,000 for the honour. One of whom is a Facebook employee named David Goldblatt. Martin has now also been announced as a guest for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, which runs throughout August. The Festival director has stated that he expects the queues for the author’s book signing to stretch ‘halfway across Edinburgh’.

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